Particulars of first successful airborne digital computer for automatic navigation and flight control; reference to "Digitac" project begun at Hughes Aircraft Co in 1948; Digitac, (Digital Tactical Automatic Control), was developed as high precision electronic system based on hyperbolic position determination; novel vernier method applied to time measurement; equipment features and system block diagrams.


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    Title :

    Flight control and digital computer


    Additional title:

    Control Eng


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1955


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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